Quotes with it-almost

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  • J. G. Ballard Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
    Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays (1997) p. 339
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Bode Miller Fame is almost a poison. I couldn't care less, in fact I lived better when I was a nobody.
    Interview with Gazzetta dello Sport, 16 Feb. 2006 [1]
    Bode Miller
    American former World Cup alpine ski racer (1977 - )
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  • Adam Garcia Families, particularly, tend to be the ones that you take the most for granted. They seem to slip under the radar, all those important things - it almost becomes second nature to do so.
    Adam Garcia
    Australian actor (1973 - )
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  • Brian K. Vaughan Fantasy/science-fiction stories have been around almost as long as each genre, but every hybrid now lives in the shadow of 'Star Wars.'
    Brian K. Vaughan
    American comic book and television writer (1976 - )
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  • Eric Hoffer Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • John W. Foster Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for some special reason, read an inferior book, at the very time you might be reading one of the highest order?
    John W. Foster
    American diplomat and military (1836 - 1917)
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  • Bobby Bowden Football has always been a big part of my life. Almost from the day I was born, playing and coaching football were all I really ever wanted to do.
    Bobby Bowden
    American football coach (1929 - )
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  • Ralph Nader For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.
    Ralph Nader
    American political activist, author and attorney (1934 - )
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  • Beeban Kidron For most women, Greenham was a place of principle, growth and song. Often joyful, sometimes terrifying, and almost always cold. As it got harder, with constant evictions and mounting violence from a frustrated and humiliated police force, the women got more determined. It was a community with a shared purpose - to live in peace.
    Beeban Kidron
    British filmmaker (1961 - )
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  • Benjamin E. Mays For nearly a century, the South made itself believe that Negroes and white people were really communicating. So convinced of this were the white Southerners that they almost made the nation believe that they, and only they, knew the mind of the Southern Negro.
    Benjamin E. Mays
    American Baptist minister and civil rights leader (1894 - 1984)
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  • George Santayana Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Carl Safina From the happy-go-lucky days of oil exploration and drilling, when a lot of easy sources were being found and easily managed, we're gotten ourselves into this sort of apocalyptic time. We're willing to destroy almost everything, risk almost anything, and go ahead with techniques for which we have no way of responding to the known problems.
    Carl Safina
    American ecologist and author (1955 - )
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  • Zsa Zsa Gabor Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
    Zsa Zsa Gabor
    American actrice (1917 - 2016)
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  • J. G. Ballard Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • Bobby Jones Golf is recognized as one of the more difficult games to play or teach. One reason for this is that each person necessarily plays by feel, and a feel is almost impossible to describe.
    Bobby Jones
    American golfer (1902 - 1971)
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  • Ben Horowitz Groupon looked like a very high valuation, but any investment in a great company at any stage is almost always a good investment.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Aneurin Bevan He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind. He does not have to struggle... with the crowded pulsations of a fecund imagination. On the contrary he is almost devoid of imagination.
    Aneurin Bevan
    British Labor politician (1897 - 1960)
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  • Baruch Spinoza He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his fellows as almost divine.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Charles Kingsley He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.
    Charles Kingsley
    British writer (1819 - 1875)
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